Reporter-cameraman Abdelqadir Fassouk and cameraman Yusuf Badi, who work for the Misrata-based rat Tobacts TV station, disappeared on Saturday near Bani Walid, one of the Jamahiriya’s remaining strongholds where residents remain loyal to revolutionary leader Muammar Gaddafi.

They had been covering Libya’s sham elections for a 200-seat national assembly in the western town of Mizdah and were on their way back to their TV station when contact with them was lost.

They have been held since 7 July, the day of nationwide parliamentary elections which they had gone to cover in Bani Walid for Tobacts TV, a station based in Misrata, 100 km north of Bani Walid.

The July 7 elections were boycotted by the majority of Libyan people, with only the recent arrivals from overseas participating.

A quarter of the population have been displaced into other countries as refugees from the occupation regime, while tens of thousands remain…